His belief in voluntary _________ prevented him from using federal intervention to relieve human suffering and contributed to his underestimation of the financial collapse.
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brain trust
In 1933, newly inaugurated President Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his _________ set out to restore the economy and public confidence.
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New Deal programs
Most of the early _________ eased hardships but did not restore prosperity; they helped to end the economy’s downward spiral but still left millions unemployed and mired in poverty.
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Father Charles E. Coughlin
The “radio priest,” _________, charged that the New Deal was a Jewish-atheist-Communist conspiracy.
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Huey Long
Senator _________ of Louisiana and Dr. Francis Townsend of California proposed radical plans to reshape the distribution of wealth from the rich to the poor.
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Second New Deal
Roosevelt responded to the criticism and the continuing economic hardship with a _________, which sought to reshape the nation’s social structure by expanding the role of the federal government.
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